
Dr. James Forbes to speak at VICPP’s “Day for All People”
The Rev. Dr. James Forbes will be the keynote speaker at the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy’s “Day for All People” on Wednesday, Jan. 20.

The Rev. Dr. James Forbes will be the keynote speaker at the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy’s “Day for All People” on Wednesday, Jan. 20.

Remarks by President Obama today at the White House on his executive actions on gun safety reform.

Meritocracy is a legitimizing myth created to distract people from the question of whether the system of power those meritocratic functionaries serve is just.

Dr. Abraham Davis Jr. began a late November chapel service held in his honor at Eastern Mennonite University with a few re-written stanzas of a favorite hymn.

John David, assistant professor of applied mathematics at VMI, received an Outstanding Faculty Award by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

Poet Robert Bly, now 89 years old, is a radical, by which I mean he returns to the roots. Haydn Reiss has captured him in his new, moving film “Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy.”

An email exchange that started with an angry reader calling an AFP columnist an “f—ing idiot” ended with he and I wishing each other a genuine Merry Christmas.

The Internet is blowing up over a generated controversy regarding a lesson on the Arabic language from a World Religions textbook at Riverheads High School.

Augusta County, I love you. I’ve had the honor of hacking into your brains and hearts, have heard your most intimate thoughts, and broken up your fights.

My first reaction to the generated controversy over an extra-credit assignment on world religions at Riverheads High School was: why didn’t I get to do that when I was in school?
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